(ROYCROFT PRESS) Goldsmith Oliver The Deserted Village

Sale 2225 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 6,000

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(ROYCROFT PRESS.) Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. Notes by Elbert Hubbard. Tall thin 8vo, publisher's 1/2 gilt-lettered white cloth over blue boards, extremities rubbed, a bit of soiling. This copy is out-of-series, from an edition of 475. East Aurora, 1898

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A curious copy with over thirty pencil sketched vignettes by W. W. Denslow in the margins, and with his signature on the title-page. Copies illuminated by Clara Schlegel have come on the market but none with Denslow illustrations, as far as we could determine. This was Denslow's first year working for the Roycroft Press and he was responsible for many extra-illuminated editions that came out in the following years. Denslow is best known for his illustrations of the popular Wizard of Oz series.